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Florida governor vetoes crisis pregnancy center funding cut

Governor of Florida Charlie Crist has vetoed a half-million dollar cut in funding to crisis pregnancy centers in the state.

The Florida Legislature, meeting during a Special Legislative Session, passed a series of budget cuts to address a $2.3 billion shortfall, the Florida Family Policy Council reports. One funding cut passed by the legislature removed $574,728 from the $2 million allocated to the Florida Pregnancy Support Services Program.
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Family: Octuplets' Mother Has 6 Other Children

The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said.

Suleman said her daughter had embryos implanted last year, and after finding out she was pregnant with multiple babies was given the option by doctors of selectively reducing the number of embryos. The woman declined.
 
"What do you suggest she should have done? She refused to have them killed," Suleman told the Times. "That is a very painful thing."

Dr. Harold Henry said the woman was already pregnant when she came to Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, and she was counseled on the option of aborting some of the fetuses.
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Tenn. Resolution would Amend State Constitution on Abortion

The five-year path to a state constitutional amendment removing protection for abortions may have started with a meeting in Bicentennial Mall on a blustery Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of pro-life supporters gathered in the park for Tennessee Right to Life's annual rally, which focused mainly on the potential of Senate Joint Resolution 127 in the state legislature. Republicans, who control both the state House and the Senate for the first time since Reconstruction, have indicated they will make SJR 127 a priority in the coming session. The resolution would amend the state constitution to read that nothing secures or protects the right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion in Tennessee. Abortion would remain legal under federal court rulings.
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Australia Won't Follow Obama on Abortion

The Rudd government has signalled it will not be pushed into following a United States decision to lift a ban on foreign aid money being used on abortion-related services. However, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says he expects the government to make a decision soon about any change in the policy. He has been considering an internal report on the issue for more than six months. The report is from a sub-committee of the Rudd government's national security committee, which has been liaising with caucus members over whether to lift the restriction. US President Barack Obama last week ended a ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform or provide information about abortions, which prevented the organisations receiving funding for other work, as well.
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NBC Rejects Pro-Life 'Super Bowl' Ad Using Obama

A popular pro-life video portraying President Obama as an unborn child has been rejected by NBC-TV as an ad during Sunday's Super Bowl. "Imagine Spot 1," a YouTube video that has amassed more than 700,000 hits since its Jan. 2O premiere on Black Entertainment Television, was submitted earlier this week to NBC by Fidelis, a Chicago-based Catholic organization. Its subsidiary, CatholicVote.org, runs the 30-second spot on its Web site. 
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Hospital Fined $20,500 for Throwing Baby Out With the Trash

Christ Hospital in Jersey City has been fined $20,500 for violating state procedures after the body of a stillborn baby was accidentally thrown out with the trash by hospital staff in December, according to a report today by the Jersey Journal . Investigators determined that on Dec. 21, the stillborn body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. was placed in the hospital morgue but later discarded before Jan. 2, when funeral home employees were to remove him. Despite an extensive, multi-state search, the infant's body was never found.
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